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Does the "Move" option in Hyper-V 2012 management console perform a live or a quick migration?

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When a VM is in a Hyper-V failover cluster there are two distinct options for moving a VM in the failover cluster manager: live migration and quick migration. I understand the differences at a high level and know that for Exchange, only live migration is supported.

However, what kind of migration is carried out when the VM is not in a cluster and you use the "Move" option in the Hyper-V manager to move the VM configuration files alone (storage is shared)? It's not clear whether this is a live or quick migration although I'm inferring that it's live migration as quick migration is never mentioned except when in the context of Hyper-V clustering.

Basically what I'm asking is "If I use the move option in Hyper-V manager to move an Exchange VM", am I carrying out a live or quick migration?

Let's park questions about whether Exchange supports live migration as there are many articles which say it does since SP1 and there are many that say you have to cold start the VM.

Thanks, Rob.


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